Index, Alabama

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Section census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35744. It stands on Little Jacobs Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hollywood quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Index within Jackson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 23 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

1886 USGS Stevenson quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Stevenson quadrangle1:125000
1895 USGS Stevenson quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1936 USGS Hollywood quadrangle1:24000
1947 USGS Hollywood quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1950 USGS Hollywood quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Chickamauga quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

116 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 116 fires within 5 miles of Index (historical) between 1994 and 2019, burning about 1,400 acres in total. None started naturally. 25 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Debris and open burning	52
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	29
Arson/incendiarism	25
Recreation and ceremony	3
Smoking	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 September 2002	Debris and open burning	60 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 2002	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1998	Debris and open burning	50 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	11 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160906-16
6 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2016	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160928-40
25 September 2016	Debris and open burning	7.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160925-5

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Morris Mill	1.4 miles	20
Gray (historical)	2.1 miles	23
Bowman Crossroads	2.4 miles	22
Dutton	2.6 miles	21
Browntown	3.3 miles	22
Pisgah	3.6 miles	20
Rorex (historical)	3.6 miles	23
Hodge	3.9 miles	21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 139190. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.